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Festival of Ideas: Truth and Power – The Politics of Expertise and Behaviour after the L’Aquila Earthquake

29th October, 2017 @ 14:00

Woolf Institute Building, Madingley Road, CB3 0UB

Overview

Dr Jan-Jonathan Bock presents his ethnographic research on the L'Aquila earthquake trial. Based on eighteen months of ethnographic fieldwork in L'Aquila, Dr Jan-Jonathan Bock argues that, rather than punishing experts and scientists for failing to predict a natural disaster, the court case sought to illuminate intersections regarding scientific truth, trust in expertise, political power, and social behaviour.

The lecture will be held in the new Woolf Institute building on the Westminster Site, Madingley Road, CB3 0UB.

This is a public lecture and all are welcome to attend. For any further information please contact: enquiries@woolf.cam.ac.uk